r/mantis

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Is this a praying mantis? Can anyone tell me if they're good for the garden, and can you tell if it's male or female if it is

I have no clue what this could possibly be. it might be a mantis egg sack . but I'm not really sure it just appeared like within yesterday or today. I've been checking it pretty often because it just got replanted in a different pot

I got this leaf mantis a week or so ago and from the research I’ve done, I think his enclosure is set up okay?
I would like some advice on what I can do to better it though! I really want to give him the best and longest life I can!
I spray his enclosure once or twice a day depending how dry its looking (I haven’t yet today bc he’s on the ceiling right now but usually hangs from the tumble weed stick)

Hi guys! Pretty new to the praying mantis world! I'm leaving for a 9 day trip and am worried about my mantis.
The cat sitter said she can spray his enclosure once a day! But she isn't comfortable feeding him live insects. Do you think he'll be okay if I give him a big feeding before leaving?

I found this mantis a few weeks ago in a garden bed I was deadheading, and it struck my interest in mantis to the point I’ve been preparing to start getting them as pets

Fast forward to today, I was in the same spot and saw him again but this time grabbed him.

Any idea what species it is? And what I can feed it until I get paid so I can buy food? (I planned on going shopping when I get paid which is in two days)

I also have a picture of when I saw him some time ago if it is the same one

(Ik im referring to it as he but I do not know his gender)

My L4(ish) ghost mantis baby is suddenly kind of sluggish and stays low on my finger. In the pic you can see his leg kind of dragging behind him. He’ll perk back up, but still seems sluggish. He’s my first mantis - what could this be?

Hey mantis friends!

My wife and I moved into a new home last year to discover that it had a number of mantises! My wife was so happy as she loves mantises. She is bedbound and has been for a while now, so she never got to see the mantises up close last year (she could only see them through the pictures I took and showed her).

We ended up getting an enclosure so we could bring one in to her for a day. But,I didn't see any other mantises the rest of the year. The enclosure sat for a while gathering dust while I kept my eye out for another mantis the whole time. Well, yesterday I found this beautiful friend and was able to catch him (he did NOT make it easy) and get him in the enclosure!

My wife was so happy to get to hang out with this guy for a while! She couldn't see him long for her health, but she complimented him many times and thanked him for hanging out.

It came time to release him (at the same time I caught him the day before) and I ended up finding tons in our yard! It was very exciting. I let him out and he climbed up onto my hand and stared at me and started doing this kind of dance? I'd be lying if I said it didn't feel a bit intimidating. He then started crawling up very quickly towards my face (some of the photos I have attached) before I quickly moved him back down into the yard where I found him.

We ended up thanking him with a flower from our garden with the thought that it was both a lovely flower and also that it might attract some bugs for him. Hopefully I didn't interrupt him too bad, and he regards the experience as a positive one.

And thank you all for the tips on how to keep him comfy for the time he was staying with us! You all helped make my wife experience some joy and I am grateful for it.

So yeah, was the mantis trying to fight me?

This praying mantis has apparently been living in my dad’s kitchen since last fall, when he brought in his house plants that had been spending the summer outside and accidentally caused an egg sac that was on one of the plants to hatch in his house. He or she is very large, about 4” long, and looks a bit thin (its abdomen is very flat). I do help it catch extra bugs when I’m at his house so that it eats enough. We live in a city in zone 7 so it will get very cold over the winter.

My dad is originally from the Caribbean and he keeps his house ridiculously hot, and I fear that once those forced air heaters are on 24/7 keeping the house at 80 degrees all winter, the mantis is going to die because there will be fewer flies to eat and it will be very very dry in his house from the heaters always running.

Will the mantis be ok where it is over the winter, living near my dads window and fruit bowl and living off the bugs in his house, or should we put it in a humid tank and feed her bugs from the pet store like crickets over the winter? It’s amazing that he or she has lived in his house for so long and it would be a shame to let her die now.

Hi guys!! This is like my first ever post on reddit😭
I was curious if anyone is familiar with this type of mantis and whether her coloring is rare or not? I know she is a female, I was able to properly sex her off of her abdomen segments. I found her outside on my porch in Southern California. She was malnourished and hadn't left my porch for several days, so I took her in. Does anyone know what kind of mantis she may be, and if her coloring is abnormal?

Why my male of Mantis religiosa don’t want to mate with my female?

Just finished setting this up, if you think I should make any changes let me know.

Hi guys, first time here looking for help. not sure if theres anything i can do at this point. he was moving around just fine the otherday and ive been misting his enclosure daily but now hes curled up and twitchy. tried feeding the other day and he refused to eat. any advice?

Hello i was planning on buying a L3/4 Ghost Mantis the gender unknown and was wanting to ask if this Enclosure is good enough . Can somebody help me